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<blockquote data-quote="Gary Kong" data-source="post: 782014" data-attributes="member: 65858"><p>SOP at the beginning of every shift is to calibrate your radar and document it. The radar will tell you if it's not meeting spec. In the old days, we used an actual tuning fork, now it is a bit more automated.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Part of academy training includes a certification course in traffic enforcement and use of radar (if your agency uses them). What happens is you become a certified (expert) witness in court for that specific discipline. Besides, after a few months/years the judges / traffic referees get their own sense of which cops are honest and which tend to B.S. but challenging the calibration of the radar and the proficiency of the radar operator is not usually successful unless you get a Barney Fife cop...and they ARE out there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gary Kong, post: 782014, member: 65858"] SOP at the beginning of every shift is to calibrate your radar and document it. The radar will tell you if it's not meeting spec. In the old days, we used an actual tuning fork, now it is a bit more automated. Part of academy training includes a certification course in traffic enforcement and use of radar (if your agency uses them). What happens is you become a certified (expert) witness in court for that specific discipline. Besides, after a few months/years the judges / traffic referees get their own sense of which cops are honest and which tend to B.S. but challenging the calibration of the radar and the proficiency of the radar operator is not usually successful unless you get a Barney Fife cop...and they ARE out there. [/QUOTE]
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